http://c133.org/blog/ all clee, all the time clee@kde.org clee@kde.org en http://c133.org/blog/tech/fdo/for_the_record.html Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:02 -1000 <p><a href="http://airlied.livejournal.com/22700.html"><img src="http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif" alt="user info" />airlied</a>: I'd be a lot less annoyed with companies like ATI if they shipped drivers (even proprietary ones!) that actually supported their latest cards.</p><p>The R5xx-series cards have been out for <i>MONTHS</i> now and there's still no acceleration, 2D <b>or</b> 3D, Open Source <b>or</b> proprietary. Good job, ATI!</p><p>Anyway. I'm excited about the way that things are headed, and I'm really glad that other people are getting excited, too.</p><p>To the people who were wondering - the "AI" in "AIGLX" stands for Accelerated Indirect - it's basically required to do a lot of neat things like using the local card to render OpenGL from a remote application. It also enables all sorts of kick-ass effects like the new bling in metacity and compiz (which doesn't work yet, but it's only a matter of time).<br /></p>